Daphnis and Chloe Excellently describing the weight of affection, the simplicitie of loue, the purport of honest meaning, the resolution of men, and disposition of Fate, finished in a Pastorall, and interlaced with the praises of a most peerlesse Princesse, wonderfull in Maiestie, and rare in perfection, celebrated within the same Pastorall, and therefore termed by the name of The Shepheards Holidaie. By Angell Daye |
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[Ye brightest gleames within those percing eies]
Daphnis.Ye brightest gleames within those percing eies
Whose glimpse retaines a shew of power deuine
Enclose your selues, for feare from loftie skies
Some enuious star do at your glory pine.
Chloe
Ye mightie powers, to whom these sacred groues
Right pleasing bene. And Nimphes that haunt this shade,
Enuie you not with wreake the hardye proues
That Natures selfe in Daphnis shape hath made
Alas if Phœbus should the heat for-thinke
That once for loue in burning breast he bare
And mazed at thy fewter, gin to shrincke
From her to thee, then woe betide my share.
Chloe
Alas if Venus stealing to her springs
In mind her sweet Adonis to embrace
Thy curled locks should vew whose beautie stings
And thee for him admire, then woe my case.
Daphnis
Excelling iewels, beare the choisest price
Things lesse in shewe, enuie alwaies the best:
Lesse Phœbe shines, when Tytan ginnes to rise
Where mightie force effects, there shrowds the least.
Chloe
Unmatched pearles, haue value still for showe
When best exceeds, who can denie the place
Though things be rated hie, yet this we knowe
It (needs) excels, whose weight hath highest grace,
Daphnis
Be honored then, thou Nimphe of all the flockes
Chloe
Be fairest thou of all that guide their heard
Daphnis
Let still thy name resound on hiest rockes
Chloe
And Chloe ne're be of thy chaunge afeard.
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